Day: September 30, 2016

By Scott Acton Pets are our companions for life, once you choose and adopt your pet, whether it is a cat, a puppy or something a little more exotic such as dragons and iguanas, you will get a lifetime full of happiness and friendship. We all know that cats are cuddly, cute creatures who are[…]

Wikimedia Commons By Lornet Turnbull / 09.29.2016 Charles Tso is an urban planner who moved to Portland, Ore., from California more than a year ago. An avid biker, the 26-year-old doesn’t own a car and seldom drives. So when he went to his local Department of Motor Vehicles office in February to obtain a non-driver[…]

The OSIRIS narrow-angle camera aboard the Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft captured this image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on September 30, 2016, from an altitude of about 10 miles (16 kilometers) above the surface during the spacecraft’s controlled descent. The image scale is about 12 inches (30 centimeters) per pixel and the image itself measures about 2,000[…]

By Dr. James W. Loewen Sociologist Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock and editor of Learning for Tomorrow, died last month. He was 87. Future Shock was a NY Times top ten bestseller for almost a year from October, 1970, through the end of the next summer. Worldwide, it has sold more than six million[…]

Now Former Trump Senior Press Representative Healy Baumgardner By Wendy Gittleson / 09.30.2016 Like millions of Americans, Donald Trump appears to suffer from insomnia, especially when things are going horribly wrong for his campaign. Trump obviously didn’t get much sleep Thursday night/Friday morning, since he was up at least half the night insulting the media,[…]

Aerial view of the Sydney Opera House in its Sydney Harbour setting. Photo courtesy of the Sydney Opera House. Trust. The youngest World Heritage Site develops an innovative preservation strategy thanks to a Getty Foundation grant. By Blair Winter / 09.29.2016 Few buildings are more recognized around the world than the Sydney Opera House; it[…]

By Jeremy Adam Smith / 09.30.2016 How You Can Tell if Someone is Grateful I’m terrible at gratitude. How bad am I? I’m so bad at gratitude that most days, I don’t notice the sunlight on the leaves of the Berkeley oaks as I ride my bike down the street. I forget to be thankful[…]

By Shaun Mullen / 09.30.2016 Donald Trump is not Adolph Hitler. Nor was Der Führer a rapacious Manhattan real estate developer who made several fortunes on the backs of poor working stiffs. But there are deeply uncomfortable similarities between Hitler’s satanic quest to Make Germany Great Again and Trump’s white-is-right campaign to do the same[…]